#1 Jersey possible to Drake Harris

Looks like Brady Hoke pulled out the biggest trump card he had in offering Harris the #1 jersey. I think it's a brilliant move... That number means everything to a Michigan WR
Edit: he wasn't offered #1. He was shown a highlight video with all the #1 greats.

Drake has said in multiple paywalled interviews that the coaches talked to him about it as a possibility. He was very clear that the coaches told him he'd need to work hard and earn it though, so it's not just being given to him as a freshman. He also said it was a big deal to him because he was the first receiver the coaches have talked about it with as a possibility (at least what the coaches told him).

They didn't say he was going to get it, the OP is very misleading. They used it as a recruiting pitch to say, "you could be next in a long line of #1 jersey wearers at Michigan". Nothing more than you'd expect from a recruiting pitch, they probably showed the same video to every one of our WR targets.

Seeing a number 1 out on the field again would give me the same feeling I had when I saw Jurassic Park in 3D IMAX last week and the scene when they see the dinosaurs walking by the lake. Chills...just mad chills.

I don't know, man. tRCMB is convinced that the only way Hoke can land such top players out of high school is that he promises playing time and basically rolls out the red carpet for them. This is probably just another of Hoke's tricks to get players to sign.

I have never missed a good opportunity to ridicule Braylon... when he deserved it.

And Braylon has given us innumerable chances to do that.

But I don't understand how this is an occasion to make fun of Braylon. Certainly, of all the dumb and crazy things Braylon has done and said, endowing a scholarship is not one of them. Braylon was an idiot for going public with his gripe(s) about Rodriguez, but today is not one of those days. Braylon's done nothing wrong in relation to Drake Harris. Nobody has.

By itself, and without Braylon's history of stupid comments, his endowment of a scholarship and his informal specification for wearers of the #1 jersey is laudable. I don't see today as one of those days to laugh at Braylon. I'd like to get back to the days of thinking of Braylon as a beautiful prototypical wideout on the field and not thinking about him off the field.

said about the #1 jersey for these years it has gone unworn, that it is approaching mythical status (somewhat deservedly so). The person deemed worthy of wearing it will be someone with the obvious elite receiving skills, but also the drive and dedicatlion to carry the honor and burden of this jersey.

Here's to hoping that any current receiver or future receiver will rise to this great honor and challenge!

I honestly never understood the switch of Devin Gardner's number. I wish somebody really could explain it. It's a distraction to me, all of these number switches. I still have it in the back of my mind that 'Devin is seven...'

I wish they would just get on with it and assign all the classic jersey numbers and not try and wait for the "perfect player" at the "perfect time". Not everyone who wore #1 and #2 was a superstar. Stars create their own legacy

Give it out to a freshman. That's how Carter, McMurtry, Alexander, Butterfield (ugh) and Terrell got it.

It was only until Braylon that they implemented that "earn it" horsecrap. If anyone knows how the Jersey really got it's start, Bo wanted to give it to Carter because he was a prized recruit. Hmmmm.....

DG's switched numbers because he wanted to switch numbers. Have that ever cameto mind. Maybe it was time for a change. Heck, he wasn't playing with the number 7 so he deemed it unlucky and switched to 12.

the coaches using the #1 jersey as a recruiting inducement. Other schools do it and Michigan traditionally used it that way. The Braylon scholarship is what's turned this into a bit of a controversy (does so-and-so deserve it or should it be given to someone else) And who knows what a player has to do to "earn it". I guess it's all water under the bridge now. Coach Hoke evidently has criteria for who gets it and has communicated that to the team. So, it's good he seems to be sticking to that in talking to recruits.